1. Title of dataset: 
Adaptation elements in African Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and National Adaptation Plans (NAPs)

2. Creators:
Andreea Nowak, Climate Action Research Area, Bioversity International and Plant Production Systems Group, Wageningen University and Research; a.nowak@cgiar.org; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8049-5757 
Lucy Njuguna, Climate Action Research Area, International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3564-520X
Krystal Crumpler, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

3. Description:
The dataset contains information on presence and linkages between climate hazards, systems at risk, adaptation goals, adaptation objectives, adaptation actions, and adaptation indicators included in African Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and National Adaptation Plans (NAPs)

4. Keywords: Adaptation; Tracking; National; Indicators; Progress; Effectiveness

5. Spatial coverage:
African countries (see "Metadata.csv" file and "DataSources.csv" file)

6. Temporal coverage:
01.01.2015 - 30.09.2022

7. Files:
"Metadata" 		 	= information describing the dataset
"Codebook" 		 	= explains variable codes, definitions and usage (links to dataset)
"AdaptationElements.csv"	= data on adaptation elements, cleaned and analyzed
"AdaptationElementsLinkages.csv"= data on linkages between adaptation elements, annotated and cleaned
"DataSources.csv" 	 	= list of data sources (NDCs and NAPs)

8. Explanation of variables:
A full list of variables, definitions, and units of measurements is available in the file "Codebook.csv"

For "AdaptationElements.csv" data file:
each row contains a datapoint regarding an adaptation element observed in a source document for a given country;
missing values refer to data not provided in the source document or not applicable for the specific variable

For "AdaptationElementsLinkages.csv" data file:
each row contains information for a document of a country (NAP or NDC). Columns indicate presence of linkages between two pairs of elements;  
annotatted cells explain if one or both elements in the pair are missing

9. Methods, materials and software
Data was collected through a review of NDCs and NAPs of African countries. A full description of the methodology, including methods used for data analysis is provided in the Research protocol. 
Data processing rules are detailed in the commented code (see below).

Data analysis was carried out in R version 4.2.3
Package versions:
ggplot2 3.4.2
ggrepel 0.9.3
forcats 1.0.0
tidyr 1.3.0
tidyverse 2.0.0
dplyr 1.1.1
circlize 0.4.15

Code is available on gitHub Link: https://github.com/andreeanowak/adaptation-tracking-africa


